Thank you so much Ryan for making this for my students! Lucky to have you help us with our rollercoaster project! My students have been waiting for this since I keep bringing up that you're making them a special video lol
A point of clarification for the trains moving faster while full vs. empty: while the trains do have more mass, they also have more inertia to overcome, which increases with mass linearly (why a brick and a feather fall at the same rate in a vacuum). The reason the trains run faster is that because the trains have more mass, wind resistance which doesn't increase much with more riders, and rolling resistance (friction on the wheels) which doesn't increase linearly, affect the train less in a relative sense.
4 hours??? he could probably cover the block zones on every rollercoaster in N.America. I know anytime I ride a coaster I keep hearing ETR talking about block zones, especially when the ride hit a mid course brake run.
As a teacher, thank you for doing this for another teacher! Education is a tough field to be in right now, but it’s nice to know so many people out there have our backs! I’ll definitely be using this video when we talk about energy!
This is a very fun video. But as a german physics student (I apologize for my poor english) I noticed some things that either weren‘t fully and correctly explained or were downright incorrect. 3:00 you tried to explain magnetic brakes: First of all those brakes are better known as induction brakes (or eddy current brakes) which tells the true principle behind those types of brakes. In a nutshell because of the motion of the train the static magnet creates a Lorentz force effecting the electrons in the conductive metal under the train. The Lorentz force however makes the electron move perpendicular to its direction of movement and to the direction of the magnetic flux of the static magnet. Therefor the electrons move in circles (better known as eddy current) which creates another electromagnetic field oriented in opposite direction to the magnetic field of the static magnet. 4:02 you introduced „Mechanical Energy“ which I have never heard of. A hydraulic launch like Kingda Ka‘s also uses potential energy, but this time the potential energy is given by building up a high amount of pressure and then releasing it creating kinetic energy. 6:13 I‘m sorry, but this is straight up wrong. If we were to observe two trains (one being empty and the other fully loaded) in a world without friction and atmosphere, both trains would complete the course in the exact same time. So, fully loaded trains are not faster as empty ones! They just preserve their velocity a lot better. Here is an example: Imagine a feather and a stone falling within an atmosphere like earth‘s. There are uncountable air molecules which perform an elastic impact with the stone/feather. All of these impacts causes the stone/feather to loose its energy to the air molecules and therefor losing speed over time. And Because the feather is lighter than the stone the molecules‘ impact on the velocity of the feather is much higher. As a result the feather decelerates more than the stone, just like the fully loaded and empty train. The effect of rolling friction also differs between a loaded and empty train, but this difference is negligible. I hope you could fully understand all of my points in this comment. And I want to clarify that this is not a rant, because I like the idea of explaining the stuff we all love. But it needs to be done correctly. Maybe it‘s just me … The rest of your videos, however, is great. Your videos are informative and super enjoyable to watch, even for a none native speaker like me. So, please keep up the great work. But I‘d like to see this video getting a makeover as soon as possible.
Yo Ryan you are POG. You really sparked my interest in roller coasters and now I’m taking 2 AP physics classes this year. And hope to Major in engineering
Interestingly enough, I was at Great Adventure on Saturday, and el toro had a delayed opening because an empty test train valleyed right before the brake run, so I was definitely thinking about this most of my day there 😂
This is awesome for kids and people who have never taken a physics class! As a chemical engineering student who has taken multiple physics courses, I would love to see you go way more in depth on the physics of roller coasters. Like I wanna see some really nerdy stuff. Maybe the physics of each type of launch. That would be really cool
I just realised this was made for students not coaster enthusiasts.At school if they are talking about energy and using cars as an example, I would not be listening at all, however when Ryan explains it using coasters as the example I actually listened and learned stuff
My husband is a design engineer and explained to our kids (maybe 8 or 9yrs old) how roller-coasters work whilst actually riding Nemesis at Alton Towers. Literally talked them the whole way around but at full volume over the sound of WAAAAAAAAARGGGHH!!!.
This is freaking awesome and hilarious to me! The basis of my 8th grade science fair project (over 20 years ago) was literally, how adding weight makes roller coasters go faster
You are a million times better than the science professor i have in college. We are actually learning energy and that stuff and he is really boring. We are doing it online so that probably has something to do with it. I should reach out to my college and have them hire you.
Beautifully explained! You know what I miss? Remember the speedometer Dragster used to have near the ride, so you could see how/when the train reached 120 mph? I used to love watching that, because you could see just how perfect the physics had to be on the launch to make the train go over. If it was only 119 mph, it used to be dicey whether or not the train would make it over. Anything less, you'd get a rollback consistently. That fascinated me. But I think that's why they removed it- they didn't like showing how often close calls would happen with the physics, lol.
Awesome, I never knew El Toro Ryan had his master's in engineering, the only thing I would add is some things about the train like the shape, another reason Kinda ka is so fast is because the front of the train is pointy so less air resistance to pull it back.
Actually the force of gravity near Earth is not a constant, the acceleration is. The force will vary in order for acceleration to remain constant, as more force is required to accelerate a heavier object at the same rate. Sorry I have to correct because I’m a nerd 😂 There were a few other physics inaccuracies, but I’m just teasing overall, love your videos
Me casually watching this as a college grad. I took physics in 11th grade. Only Ryan could make this interesting. My brain automatically inserted the intamin fart sound when you showed a Torro train going over a hill.
If you were to replace the launch tracks on coasters like kingda Ka and top Thrill Dragster with conventional lifts that take the train to the top of the tower and at about the same speed that the train crests the peak at, the ride after then would be exactly the same as it currently is since it gives the trains the same energy at that point in the ride. Of course the launches make the ride much more fun and interesting
It's cool to look at maverick as well; the first LSM lift hill gives the trains a significant amount of BOTH gravitational potential energy (100 feet of vertical displacement) and kinetic energy (over 20 mph, according to your maverick video)
I love your video, but there are minor things I wouldn't say are *on point*. Air resistance for example also is a friction and can be assigned to friction in general - maybe this would be better for comprehension. For every conversion of energy you lose some of your energy. So your mechanical energy will go into kinetic energy and friction. And acceleration is one of my favourite topics. The heavier a train, the more energy it has. But I wouldn't say the more mass, the more speed. More precise would be "The more mass, the better it keeps the speed", since the amount of energy is higher and the amount of energy losses stays nearly the same, comparing different weights. But since the mass is irrelevant for the gravitational acceleration, a feather will accelerate the same as a stone in vacuum, resulting in the same velocity. :D Anyway, I like your video and hope you inspire more young people to become engineers in the future. :)
You’re absolutely correct. And thank you for your kind words. This video is geared towards 8th graders in genera science but I’m thinking about making a part 2 to this video that goes much more in depth about what you’re talking about here.
@@ElToroRyan if you ever consider talking about acceleration, feel free to contact me. We‘ve a project ongoing about measuring and visualizing acceleration data on rollercoasters. Maybe that would be helpful :)
There's more. Espescially for the mass Both Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy is massless, mean ideally either light or heavy train should travel same course on exactly same time, no matter how heavy or light the train is. But, there's the catch, Ryan mentioned about drag and friction. And on here mass play really bigger role. Bigger mass mean bigger inertia, which would make drag and friction (espescially from the axle) more and more meaningless.
From an educator's perspective, this is so good! I wish I would have had this video last spring when I was trying to help my daughter pass her IXL (or was it gradecam/classkick) lessons on these very concepts. Well done, ElToroRyan. Btw was that personal skate footage? 😉
The FORCE of gravity is dependent on mass. Larger mass objects feel a greater force than smaller ones. However, since a force can be described as an acceleration in terms of mass, the mass proportions cancel out, so we recognize that gravity has a constant acceleration. Also, keep in mind that the number 9.81 only applies to us earthlings. I love the physics here so much as I recently discovered that rollercoasters were my career passion after I found I wasnt into all of the boring relativity stuff
Ahh, that's cool that you got to chip in the with the science instruction. Little surprised you didn't spend a good part of the video discussing block zones, but I digress.
You explanation as to why loaded cars carry speed more than empty ones is backwards. Without friction forces the speed of an empty train would be the same as the speed of the full one. The friction forces are pretty much the same for rolling friction and, since the cross section of the train is the same if people are on it, the drag on the train is basically the same. So since this force is the same empty or full and F=ma bigger m means smaller a. Since this is a negative acceleration from the friction forces a heavier train slows down less.
Thank you so much Ryan for making this for my students! Lucky to have you help us with our rollercoaster project! My students have been waiting for this since I keep bringing up that you're making them a special video lol
It was my pleasure! I hope your students like the video!
I wish this was my school project
@@dillybob3248 yup, i would be so nerdy 😂
@@asterisks3062 yes me too
Ryan is such a G
For people commenting about the intro: This is actually a vudeo made for an 8th grade class that Ryan's wife teaches. That is actually pretty cool
Damn that’s pretty wholesome
@@prakesh2904 it is.
Thats pog
I noticed that instantly
You forgot a block section explanation
This was a video meant for a class. So this is what my class learned this semester. Lol
That’s for tech class
Ryan: comes out with another video after a few weeks
Us: Return of the King
My actual teacher begging me to learn this sh*t
Me:nah
Ryan: explains it
Me:OOH ENERGY ROLLIE COASTIE
I’ve never clicked on a video so hard... I love my physics and rollercoasters... and my dad, ElToroRyan
More like ElProfessorRyan! Great vid man, as an engineer and coaster enthusiast myself I love the science/physics behind them 👍🏻
I am a middle school teacher in NY and that video slaps, totally level appropriate vocab and concepts.
I’m literally taking physics right now and this man taught me more in 8 minutes than my teacher has all year
I wish this video was released years ago
Lmbo, oof 😂😂😂
How did he know I was in 8th grade😂
How do you know my language?🧐
😂😂
@@goonch7956 man idk
A point of clarification for the trains moving faster while full vs. empty: while the trains do have more mass, they also have more inertia to overcome, which increases with mass linearly (why a brick and a feather fall at the same rate in a vacuum). The reason the trains run faster is that because the trains have more mass, wind resistance which doesn't increase much with more riders, and rolling resistance (friction on the wheels) which doesn't increase linearly, affect the train less in a relative sense.
Can we get a 4 hour video dedicated to block zones please?
4 hours??? he could probably cover the block zones on every rollercoaster in N.America.
I know anytime I ride a coaster I keep hearing ETR talking about block zones, especially when the ride hit a mid course brake run.
Roller coasters inspired me to become an engineer.
I hope you reach your goal in becoming one. :D
me too!
Same
Same! Hey I know you from LETU! Haha
Hey If you want an architect to theme your coasters im here ;) (Still studying tho)
As a teacher, thank you for doing this for another teacher! Education is a tough field to be in right now, but it’s nice to know so many people out there have our backs! I’ll definitely be using this video when we talk about energy!
This is a very fun video. But as a german physics student (I apologize for my poor english) I noticed some things that either weren‘t fully and correctly explained or were downright incorrect. 3:00 you tried to explain magnetic brakes: First of all those brakes are better known as induction brakes (or eddy current brakes) which tells the true principle behind those types of brakes. In a nutshell because of the motion of the train the static magnet creates a Lorentz force effecting the electrons in the conductive metal under the train. The Lorentz force however makes the electron move perpendicular to its direction of movement and to the direction of the magnetic flux of the static magnet. Therefor the electrons move in circles (better known as eddy current) which creates another electromagnetic field oriented in opposite direction to the magnetic field of the static magnet. 4:02 you introduced „Mechanical Energy“ which I have never heard of. A hydraulic launch like Kingda Ka‘s also uses potential energy, but this time the potential energy is given by building up a high amount of pressure and then releasing it creating kinetic energy. 6:13 I‘m sorry, but this is straight up wrong. If we were to observe two trains (one being empty and the other fully loaded) in a world without friction and atmosphere, both trains would complete the course in the exact same time. So, fully loaded trains are not faster as empty ones! They just preserve their velocity a lot better. Here is an example: Imagine a feather and a stone falling within an atmosphere like earth‘s. There are uncountable air molecules which perform an elastic impact with the stone/feather. All of these impacts causes the stone/feather to loose its energy to the air molecules and therefor losing speed over time. And Because the feather is lighter than the stone the molecules‘ impact on the velocity of the feather is much higher. As a result the feather decelerates more than the stone, just like the fully loaded and empty train. The effect of rolling friction also differs between a loaded and empty train, but this difference is negligible.
I hope you could fully understand all of my points in this comment. And I want to clarify that this is not a rant, because I like the idea of explaining the stuff we all love. But it needs to be done correctly. Maybe it‘s just me …
The rest of your videos, however, is great. Your videos are informative and super enjoyable to watch, even for a none native speaker like me. So, please keep up the great work. But I‘d like to see this video getting a makeover as soon as possible.
I have a test on this tomorrow lmaooo😂. Gonna pass now
i hope i get a worksheet for this video sometime in the future lmaoooo
unfortunately i’m in biology rn so i don’t like my chances
The legend is back...
I can use this in my physics class I have right after the lunch break I am on, Thanks ryan.
Yo Ryan you are POG. You really sparked my interest in roller coasters and now I’m taking 2 AP physics classes this year. And hope to Major in engineering
El Toto Ryan when will you go to Six Flags Great America
He should change it to “El Toto Ryan” 😂
this is what I’ve been asking bruh how has he been to all these parks in Japan but still hasn’t been to my home park
I'm really curious as to how Eltororyan will react to the American Eagle. I've got a myriad of ideas about it
Not till they at least are allowed to open. 😢
@@PersonLabeledN0AH we’re not in Kansas anymore!!
I sent this to my physics teacher
epic physics with ryan
Interestingly enough, I was at Great Adventure on Saturday, and el toro had a delayed opening because an empty test train valleyed right before the brake run, so I was definitely thinking about this most of my day there 😂
I bet maintenance didn’t have any water dummies in that train! 😂
@@ElToroRyan oh of course not. Then, for the next two hours of testing, they had water dummies only in the front 🤦♂️
The legend is back!!!Great video mate
I am not an 8th grade student of New Brunswick, but I still greatly enjoyed this video!
I HAVE BEEN WATCHING YOU FOR 5 years now AND MY TEACHER SHOWED ME THIS VIDEO INFRONT OF CLASS !
I wish ElToroRyan was my 8th grade science teacher's husband 😔
Wait a minute, how'd he know I was in 8th grade lmao
This is awesome for kids and people who have never taken a physics class! As a chemical engineering student who has taken multiple physics courses, I would love to see you go way more in depth on the physics of roller coasters. Like I wanna see some really nerdy stuff. Maybe the physics of each type of launch. That would be really cool
When will the full video about block brakes come out?
I would be happy to watch this video in my 8th grade class. My teachers always have us watch clingy top 10 videos.
It's stuff like this is why I love learning stuff about roller coasters. It makes riding them so much more interesting.
Just found the channel and love the videos! Great production value and professional understandable content, keep up the good work!
I hope you guys in the class enjoyed this video!
Thank you, Mr. Mang, and the TH-cam algorithm for this random yet educational recommendation!
I just realised this was made for students not coaster enthusiasts.At school if they are talking about energy and using cars as an example, I would not be listening at all, however when Ryan explains it using coasters as the example I actually listened and learned stuff
My husband is a design engineer and explained to our kids (maybe 8 or 9yrs old) how roller-coasters work whilst actually riding Nemesis at Alton Towers. Literally talked them the whole way around but at full volume over the sound of WAAAAAAAAARGGGHH!!!.
Thank you for the lesson. El Toro is absolutely awesome!
This is freaking awesome and hilarious to me! The basis of my 8th grade science fair project (over 20 years ago) was literally, how adding weight makes roller coasters go faster
I been waiting for a new video for the longest I had to rewatch all the old vids
This is one of the best videos on the channel so far! Thank you for making it
Zippin Pippin and other classic style wooden coasters are great examples of how hills get sequentially smaller.
Thank you so much Mr. Chin🙌🙌
You are a million times better than the science professor i have in college. We are actually learning energy and that stuff and he is really boring. We are doing it online so that probably has something to do with it. I should reach out to my college and have them hire you.
When we watched this in class I got so hyped
I wish I had this video when I was in 8th grade lol
Love an engineer’s take on coasters and eltororyan is tops. Video idea, how much it costs / kwhr’s needed for various launch coasters.
ETR would be the best teacher of all time this video is proof why
Beautifully explained! You know what I miss? Remember the speedometer Dragster used to have near the ride, so you could see how/when the train reached 120 mph? I used to love watching that, because you could see just how perfect the physics had to be on the launch to make the train go over. If it was only 119 mph, it used to be dicey whether or not the train would make it over. Anything less, you'd get a rollback consistently. That fascinated me. But I think that's why they removed it- they didn't like showing how often close calls would happen with the physics, lol.
Thank you for the lesson professor El Toro Ryan! We all know Great Adventure has the best energy!!
Ryan is always the best
Amazing video man
I am not in 8th grade anymore but hey, I don't even remember this in 8th so El Toro Ryan is the best science or engineering teacher out there.
This is super cool actually
“hello eighth grade students of New Brunswick”
listen im 18 and from EAST brunswick but still feel called out LMFAO
i was just in New Brunswick last week though so close enough!
we literally just learned about this today in class, im showing this to my teacher
I love Top Thrill Dragster!!!!
Awesome, I never knew El Toro Ryan had his master's in engineering, the only thing I would add is some things about the train like the shape, another reason Kinda ka is so fast is because the front of the train is pointy so less air resistance to pull it back.
Awesome video. People don’t often think about this stuff when it comes to roller coasters. Keep it up man!
-Ride on!
This feels like that news reporter saying "The people died due to the fire that was too hot for their bodies"
my teacher is using this video to teach us about momentum, and i recognized your voice. i realized it was you lol
Ryan can you explain what “high rail” means on the track, ie Lockness Monster Arrow versus modern track aided by computers?
I cannot like this hard enough! The only thing I would add is that some of the kinetic energy is also converted to sound energy!
Omg I wish I could watch this
Actually the force of gravity near Earth is not a constant, the acceleration is. The force will vary in order for acceleration to remain constant, as more force is required to accelerate a heavier object at the same rate. Sorry I have to correct because I’m a nerd 😂 There were a few other physics inaccuracies, but I’m just teasing overall, love your videos
Thanks Sir
damnn el toro ryan in class lets goooo
Me casually watching this as a college grad. I took physics in 11th grade. Only Ryan could make this interesting. My brain automatically inserted the intamin fart sound when you showed a Torro train going over a hill.
Mr.Ryan when are we going on the field trip to great adventure?
If you were to replace the launch tracks on coasters like kingda Ka and top Thrill Dragster with conventional lifts that take the train to the top of the tower and at about the same speed that the train crests the peak at, the ride after then would be exactly the same as it currently is since it gives the trains the same energy at that point in the ride. Of course the launches make the ride much more fun and interesting
Wholesome AF, great video to hold us over until the next Problematic Coaster doc!
I’ve learned more in this video then anything in school so far
You should make this video a featured introductory video of your channel. It really helps us to understand the other videos you have
It's cool to look at maverick as well; the first LSM lift hill gives the trains a significant amount of BOTH gravitational potential energy (100 feet of vertical displacement) and kinetic energy (over 20 mph, according to your maverick video)
I love your video, but there are minor things I wouldn't say are *on point*.
Air resistance for example also is a friction and can be assigned to friction in general - maybe this would be better for comprehension.
For every conversion of energy you lose some of your energy. So your mechanical energy will go into kinetic energy and friction.
And acceleration is one of my favourite topics. The heavier a train, the more energy it has. But I wouldn't say the more mass, the more speed.
More precise would be "The more mass, the better it keeps the speed", since the amount of energy is higher and the amount of energy losses stays nearly the same, comparing different weights. But since the mass is irrelevant for the gravitational acceleration, a feather will accelerate the same as a stone in vacuum, resulting in the same velocity. :D
Anyway, I like your video and hope you inspire more young people to become engineers in the future. :)
You’re absolutely correct. And thank you for your kind words. This video is geared towards 8th graders in genera science but I’m thinking about making a part 2 to this video that goes much more in depth about what you’re talking about here.
@@ElToroRyan if you ever consider talking about acceleration, feel free to contact me. We‘ve a project ongoing about measuring and visualizing acceleration data on rollercoasters. Maybe that would be helpful :)
@@BenediktHermes Certainly will! That sounds really cool!
@@ElToroRyan maybe you want to take a peek :)
Some videos are already available. We named the channel CoasterStats. We‘d love to support you :)
I saw your Zadra video already! Super amazing stuff! I’d definitely love to work with you guys and I hope your channel blows up!
All a sudden everybody is in 8th grade
Surely with a cable/hydraulic launch it is elastic potential energy?
Definitely!
I have now liked commented and subscribed, keep up the great work!
Question: will there be such a thing as steel vengeance Ryan?
Great educational video! 🤓🎢👍🏼
There's more. Espescially for the mass
Both Kinetic Energy and Potential Energy is massless, mean ideally either light or heavy train should travel same course on exactly same time, no matter how heavy or light the train is.
But, there's the catch, Ryan mentioned about drag and friction. And on here mass play really bigger role. Bigger mass mean bigger inertia, which would make drag and friction (espescially from the axle) more and more meaningless.
You're correct! Maybe I'll make another physics video one day that goes much more in depth.
@@ElToroRyan You are already nailed enough in this video and i love this simpler one. Espescially for normal people who doesn't really into physic
From an educator's perspective, this is so good! I wish I would have had this video last spring when I was trying to help my daughter pass her IXL (or was it gradecam/classkick) lessons on these very concepts. Well done, ElToroRyan. Btw was that personal skate footage? 😉
You know its not geared at enthusiasts when he calls Kingda Ka's top hat a "Massive Hill"
The FORCE of gravity is dependent on mass. Larger mass objects feel a greater force than smaller ones. However, since a force can be described as an acceleration in terms of mass, the mass proportions cancel out, so we recognize that gravity has a constant acceleration. Also, keep in mind that the number 9.81 only applies to us earthlings. I love the physics here so much as I recently discovered that rollercoasters were my career passion after I found I wasnt into all of the boring relativity stuff
I am now an 8th grade student from new-brunswick
I thought TH-cam was my escape from school
If only building a roller coaster was this simple...
I just started hs and I just started physics lmao
Mr eltoro Ryan this slaps
I got a shoutout on the intro biggest flex in the whole comments
No🙄
Ahh, that's cool that you got to chip in the with the science instruction. Little surprised you didn't spend a good part of the video discussing block zones, but I digress.
Great video mang!
I know that everyone will be taking Ryan's 8th grade science courses in the future now :D
Im gonna send this to my 8th grade science teacher so if we learn about energy again we can watch this vid
"Hello eighth grade students of New Brunswick"
Me, a 23 yr old woman in CA 👁👄👁
The funny thing is, this is a better explanation than anything my teachers have ever taught me.
I already know this.
Whatever ill watch the vid anyway
Question: Friction braking systems convert kinetic energy into heat energy. What do magnetic braking systems convert kinetic energy into?
It‘s also heat
Lesson 2 should be about momentum and up stop wheels. Lesson 3 should be about air time, positive g, and laterals.
You explanation as to why loaded cars carry speed more than empty ones is backwards. Without friction forces the speed of an empty train would be the same as the speed of the full one. The friction forces are pretty much the same for rolling friction and, since the cross section of the train is the same if people are on it, the drag on the train is basically the same. So since this force is the same empty or full and F=ma bigger m means smaller a. Since this is a negative acceleration from the friction forces a heavier train slows down less.
You’re absolutely right but this video is meant to serve younger grade school students who are just beginning to learn about the subject